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- Dick Winters. If there is a central character in Band of Brothers, it’s Richard “Dick” Winters. The eventual commander of Easy Company was born in 1918 in Pennsylvania.
- Ronald Speirs. Speirs pops up throughout the early episodes of Band of Brothers as a somewhat menacing but effective soldier. Much of his infamy came from rumors that he gave German prisoners of war cigarettes before executing them.
- Lynn “Buck” Compton. Buck Compton was one of the Easy Company’s primary platoon leaders during the war, with the company from Camp Toccoa to the Battle of the Bulge.
- Carwood Lipton. Clifford Carwood Lipton, played by Donnie Wahlberg in the series, was motivated to join the paratroopers after hearing that they were among the most highly trained soldiers.
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Well to get an actual count, you’d subtract the number of guys killed who were in E Company from Toccoa from 140. Some of those guys were Muck, Dukeman, Hoobler, Bill Kiehn, Everett Gray, and Robert van Klinken (those are ones I’m certain were Toccoa trained E Company men).
- Inside The Formation of Easy Company
- How Easy Company Made A Name For Itself During World War II
- The Lasting Legacy of This “Band of Brothers”
In July 1942, the 140 men and seven officers who formed the first iteration of Easy Company — or E Company, 2nd Battalion of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division — gathered for training at Camp Toccoa in Georgia. The soldiers had a few attributes in common. “They were young, born since the Great War,” Ambrose wrote i...
For the men of Easy Company, they entered World War II in earnest on June 6, 1944. Then, they parachuted alongside thousands of other Allied soldiers onto the beaches of Normandy during Operation Overlord or D-Day. “Got on a plane, traveled over the Channel,” Easy Company member Edward Shameslater recalled in an interview. “By the time we got acros...
After World War II ended, the men of Easy Company went their separate ways. Nixon went to work for his family’s company, Shames took a job at the National Security Agency, and Winters started his own business selling feed for livestock to farmers. But many of the men stayed in touch. In fact, that’s what inspired Stephen Ambrose to write about Easy...
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Jul 5, 2022 · Last surviving member of US Army's Easy Company immortalized in Steven Spielberg's WWII series 'Band of Brothers' dies aged 97 in Mississippi. Bradford Freeman, 97, of the 506th Parachute...
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Of the 140 members of Easy who took off on DDay, only 69 (I think, it's around half) made it back to Upottery following that campaign. They then lost 30 over the rest of the way, including Bastogne, but that includes replacements.
There are no longer any living members of Easy Company. 1st Lieutenant Ed Shames celebrated his 100th birthday in June 2021, and unfortunately, passed away at the end of that year.
Sep 20, 2023 · Lt. Thomas Meehan & Easy Company's Crashed Plane Wasn't Recovered Until Years After WW2 Ended. Following a direct hit from an artillery shell, Lt. Meehan’s C-47 plane went down over France, making what happened to him of the first major Easy Company deaths in Band of Brothers.
